Re: Mini-coils?

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Original poster: Troy Peterson <troypeterson-at-shaw.ca> 


Hiya,

         Is this shutdown immediate? What about the duty cycle of the tc 
primary - the actual spark is on and off and on again in a very short 
period of time, is it possible that the arc could be short enough that it 
wouldn't trigger the internal shutdown? would it work if it were at a very 
high (or relatively low) breakrate?
Just the thoughts that come to my mind, I'm no expert.. I may just be 
talking out of my butt :)

Cheers,
  Troy

>Original poster: "Dr. Resonance" <resonance-at-jvlnet-dot-com>
>
>Good idea Chris but it won't fly.  We've worked with the Emco units.  They
>have automatic internal shutdown any time a spark occurs or excessive corona
>occurs.  They come back in 1-2 sec. but just won't work for a TC power
>source.
>
>Dr. Resonance

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> > One thing that I've always looked at to build one of these micro coils are
> > these mini HV power supplies from EMCO:
> > <http://www.emcohighvoltage-dot-com/>http://www.emcohighvoltage-dot-com/ If you
> > look at the "Q series" they are these puny little DC to HVDC converters.
> > The current coming out of the really high voltage models is pretty small,
> > but should work on that small of a coil. You could then run the thing off
> > of 3 1.5 volt batteries - probably C cells or something. I've always
>wanted
> > to build a coil this small, but so far my large coil keeps killing parts,
> > and replacing them isn't cheap. =( Good luck!

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